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$92m addition slated for VCU School of Engineering

January 22, 2018

Construction is set to start this fall on a $92 million addition to Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Engineeringโ€™s East Hall building.

The four-story, 133,000-square-foot building, which was included in VCUโ€™s 2020 Master Site Plan, will be used as a research and economic development hub for the engineering school. It will house the schoolโ€™s career services, a 9,000-square-foot innovation space, and various research labs, said L. Franklin Bost, executive associate dean for the school.

โ€œIn the last five years, weโ€™ve increased our external research funding by 400 percent, and we want to continue doing that,โ€ Bost said. โ€œWeโ€™ve hired approximately 40 new faculty in the last five years.โ€

He said the project will break ground this summer and is scheduled for completion in September 2020.

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